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Quote by Jacques Maritain

“Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.”

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Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain was a French philosopher born on November 18, 1882, in Paris, France, and died on April 28, 1973. He is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, renowned for his contributions to Christian philosophy, political philosophy, and aesthetics. more

“The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.”

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Book:Existence and the Existent

Source: Existence and the Existent

“God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth”

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Book:Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

Source: Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau

“I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.”

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Author:Jacques Maritain

“Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.”